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Performances of a Sludge Reduction Process Using High Concentration Membrane Bioreactor with Sludge Pretreatment  

Han, Kyu-Chul (성균광대학교 토목환경공학과)
Yeom, Ik-Tae (성균광대학교 토목환경공학과)
Jung, Woo-Jin (성균광대학교 토목환경공학과)
Kim, Hyung-Soo (성균광대학교 토목환경공학과)
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Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater / v.17, no.4, 2003 , pp. 559-566 More about this Journal
Abstract
From this research, the performances of a sludge reduction in the sewage sludge aerobic digestion was experimented by using a sludge pretreatment and membrane bioreactor. The submerged plate membrane was used as the solid-liquid separation membrane. After drawing small amounts of sludge in a bioreactor and then doing the alkaline treatment and ozone treatment, the sludge was sent to back to the reactor. The HRT in the reactor was set as 5 days and the operation in the reactor was carried out at the DO of 1mg/L on average. After 100 days of operation in the reactor, it was shown that the reduction efficiency of total solids was more than 83%. Most of volatile solids were removed through mineralization, and the considerable portion of the non-volatile solids was dissolved and then flowed out with the effluent. Only about 16.3% of total solids in the sludge was accmulated in the reactor even without the loss of volatile fraction. Also, by deriving nitrification and denitrification in one reactor simultaneously, more than 90% of nitrogen removal effect was realized and the experiment was run smoothly without fouling of membrane, even in the high concentration of MLSS. Based on this experiment, sludge can be reduced considerably at a low HRT by these two newly suggested approach.
Keywords
sludge pretretment; membrane bioreactor; sludge reduction; aerobic digestion;
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